New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-05

present age.
Lottie was utterly spoiled by both
Mr.. and Mrs. Winton. At first, Vane9
/ had been shocked at her hoydenish
ways.
| But the more he studied her original
! character, the greater he became rec
| onciIed to IIottie's moods. Tolerance
gave place to admiration, and that in
time, to love.
1 Vane Winton had always longed to
discover q woman IN whose character
| he hoped to find originality and free.
dom from affectation and deceit In
| Lottie lie believed he had found, not
MS ideal exactly, but the elements out
of which to mold it, Could he only
teach Lottie to love him, what a.
splendid woman she might become!
| He would wait patiently and hope
| fully, he told himself, as he walked
away from the incorrigible object OF
! his heart.
Taking a copy ofTalmage's sermons
from his pocket. Vane sat down on
| bench under an elm and commenced
it's persual.
Soon a merry laugh caused him to
lift his eyes. He saw Lottie riding
down the maple shaded lane on her
milkwhite pony, Floss. Very bright
and saucy she looked in her navy-blue
riding habit and jaunty hat with it's
dropping plume, as she drew rein be-
side him.
''Slr Owl, am on my way to meet
Alice now; and while am gone shall
expectyou to fix up In other words,
put on clean collar, part your hair
in the middle, pin a sunhower
in your button-hole, and en-
deavor to assume the aesthetic aspect
OF the delightful dude OF the nineteenth
century" And with another gay laugh,
the vivacious fay vanished, like a me-
! teOr, in a cloud of dust down theroad.
| For weeks after Alice Mays arrival,
the Winton home was filled with brill
liant company.
| Vane devoted himself almost entire
ly to Miss May, leaving Lottie to
amuse herself or seek the society of
the guests, which the gay girl did not
much relish as she dlsliked highly all
tendency to tight-laced decorum.
They had frequent picnics in the
grove near the Winton home, at which.
Alice always shone as the 'bright
particular STAR" She would re-
turn, after being gone all day,
with her elegant costume as fresh
and unrumpled as when she started;
while Lottie would lose her fan and
parasol, wade in the brook, get her
dress torn and soiled and come home
looking like a fright, with her face and
hands as dark as Mexican's, COM
pared with the fair, composed Alice
May.
When they went riding Lottie would
make Floss perform such daring
pranks as jumping wide bitches, leap
ing fences, ETC., thus provoking earnest
remOnstrances from Vane and Alice.
Then the brown-eyed witch would
ride more recklessly than ever, send
ing back ringing peals of laughter to
the dignified couple whom she left to
bring up the rear.
OF late Vane thought he detected
sort OF recklessness in Lottie's freaks.
When going up the ountain, where
it was dangero usly steep, Vane dis
mounted to lead Miss Mays horse,
telling Lottie not to attempt an as
cent until he came to her assistance.
But she scorned his command. Put
ting her whip to Floss, she galloped
past them, Ikea violent wind, on up
the rocky height, tearing up pebble and
turf, over wild chasms and along mar
row Lodges, when single misstep
would have sent pony and rider down,
down to instant, awful destruction
Vane had trembled fairly. To screen
his fears, though, he had given Alice
his entire attention. When they
reached the girl at the top of the
mountain, traces of tears might have
been seen in the brown eyes. But she
kept her face turned carefully away
from both Vane and Alice.
"Lottie, why will you ride so reck-
lessly, endanger your life and cause us
such wild apprensions?" was Miss
Mays interrogative reprimand.
The girl who had given her compan-
ions such a fright over her mad eques-
trian performances shot aswift glance
at Vane, sittingpale but self-possessed
on his horse, as she gaily replied:
Have no direful forebodings on my
account, good folks. I'm in league
with the fairies, hob.goblins, ETC., who
live among those handsome NJ ountain
ferns, and they will not permit me to
come to the least harm even if I want
ed to do So"
please do be more careful of your
self hereafter, Lottie," spoke Vane for
the first time, looking tenderly at the
cause of all their present anxieties.
.'Oh, well, I'll try to be, Vane. But
you know its impossible forme to curb
myself by the rules which poky human
ity goes by. always did love a tear